"... because you love them, you love a subject, a historical figure, a period. Build a collection and become the expert on the subject. It is the voyage that will give you incomparable pleasure, not the arrival at the destination. If you must invest, invest in yourself: enrich yourself." The Worth of Rare Books, worth reading ...
... from ILAB booksellers
Michael Ginsberg in conversation with Rusty Mott, John Windle, Natalie Bauman, Peter Stern, Jo Ann Reisler, Charles Goldsmid
"My father was one of the founders of the ABAA and knew almost everyone in the trade. I didn't care much about rare books as a kid, but I always liked booksellers. I remember selling my first book when I was five years old to Charlie O'Malley, an Irish American bookseller in New York. He used to buy quite regularly from me when I was a kid and always over-paid" (Rusty Mott). ILAB Booksellers on Video ...
Kay and Muriel Craddock - Rare. A Life Among Antiquarian Books
Stuart Kells' history of antiquarian bookselling through the lens of the personal and business lives of two remarkable women: Kay and Muriel Craddock. Brilliant! Read a chapter ...
Nigel Beale met Adrian Harrington at the Toronto Antiquarian Bookfair to talk about the challenges that face the antiquarian book trade. An audio interview ...
... vintage shoes and the books about them, travel accounts from
Tripoli and the French colonies, books on economics, politics, art, languages, theories on feminism or Baseball books, first editions by Truman Capote, Eudora
Welty, Carl Sandburg, or calligraphic
masterpieces written in Fraktur. Collecting tips ...
... and browse the ILAB catalogues
Charlotte du Rietz
Catalogue 36 - Interesting Books on Travel and Language
Between the Covers
Gay and Lesbian Interest
Gert Jan Bestebreurtje
Colonial & Maritime History
Hugues de Latude
Catalogue 39: Livres anciens
Hordern House
Australia in the 18th Century
Antiquària Llibreria Farré
Catalogue 97: Spiritualism, Erotica, Occult, History